[_yosefk]

The religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises, with the "arrested" bit at the end. (Not unexpectedly BTW; IMO comparing any such pitch to a religion is usually a compliment to the pitch, as religions of today evolved over many centuries and so are better debugged than many an age-of-reason attempt at scientific-sounding wisdom. And personally I'm deeply not religious, but still.)

I did read that rats run faster towards a reward than they run from a punishment etc., so yeah, scarcity vs abundance, sure, but if someone is paid to coach me when I have a deadline to meet, I'll show them some abundance.

[Animats]

The religious version in fact seems more restrained in its promises

I picked one of the more conservative sites promoting "abundance". There are much worse. See "Prosperity Theology" in Wikipedia. That, however, seems to have declined since the 2008 recession.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

[_yosefk]

Sure there are worse sites - I wasn't 100% serious there...

[kaybe]

I suspect many religions also suffer heavily from legacy issues. Maybe a rewrite would help, debugged or not.

[TheOtherHobbes]

The original technical debt.

[douche]

Christianity in particular seems to suffer from the Lava Layer pattern[1]

[1] http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-p...